Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 225 65.8%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 42 12.3%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 75 21.9%
  • Total voters
    342
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The weight/mass simulator has been installed on top of SN5.

However it looks like static fire test won't be until Monday.

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It looks like they might be getting ready to stack a nose cone over at the wind break building. Haven’t seen that building used for much, at least lately.
 
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twoffo said:
On the NSF boards they are hinting that they may skip/scrap SN6 and move on to SN8.

Apparently based on this article: Starship SN5 set for a static fire followed shortly by a 150-meter hop attempt
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I don't believe that, the work done on it looks even better than on SN5. I wouldn't be surprised if one of those nosecones isn't for it.

They have been pushing the static fire back on SN5 everyday this week. Watching the lapadre live stream they appear to be going over every system with a fine tooth comb double & triple checking everything.
 
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A new SpaceX filing with the FCC suggests Starship rocket prototypes may fly more than 12 miles above Texas within the next 7 months

  • The filing requests permission to track and communicate with Starship prototypes as they fly up to 12 1/2 miles, or 20 kilometers, into the air from SpaceX's rocket-development facility in Boca Chica, Texas, between August and February.
  • SpaceX earned a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration on May 28 to fly the vehicles, but the company, founded by Elon Musk, also needs the FCC's permission.


SpaceX hopes to launch prototypes of its Starship rocket more than a dozen miles high within the next seven months, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

Elon Musk, the aerospace company's founder and CEO, is urgently racing to develop Starship, a fully reusable rocket system that is designed to one day land on the moon for NASA and take up to 100 people to Mars at a time.

In early June — shortly after SpaceX successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station using a different rocket — Musk reportedly urged employees to shift their focus to Starship. Aerial photos also show a frenzied increase in activity at the company's rocket development site in Boca Chica, Texas.

Now the company has filed a request to the FCC to use certain radio frequencies while launching Starship prototypes up to 12 1/2 miles, or 20 kilometers, into the air. The filing, posted Thursday, specifies that launch operations would occur between August 18 and February 18.


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The Boring Company’s new TBM Prufrock has the ability to start tunneling without having to have a pit created for it to be lowered into. That would seem very useful on the Moon or Mars.
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